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Monday, 25th June 2012

An EMI-Universal Merger Won't Fix the Music Industry

Sales of digital music surpassed disc sales for the first time last year, spurring the music industry's dawning awareness that this digital thing isn't going away. Executives at Universal Music Group (home of Gotye, Kanye West, Lady Gaga and numerous other hit makers) and EMI (for whom the Beatles are one of many cash cows) told the U.S. Senate…

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Microsoft's Mobile Strategy: The Windows 8 Infinite Loop

Microsoft's Mobile Strategy: The Windows 8 Infinite Loop

Microsoft is late to the mobile party. It's never going to make a dent in the tablet market. It will never figure out the new era of hardware and the Web. It will crumble beneath the behemoths that are Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook. At least that is what the pundits have been yelling for more than a year. At this point, though, we know…

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(Number) 9 Things the Yoko Ono App SHOULD Do

(Number) 9 Things the Yoko Ono App SHOULD Do

Yoko Ono, widow of The Beatles' John Lennon, has released an iPhone app. The app, called #smilesfilm, allows users to share snapshots of smiling faces. That’s great and all, but we came up with nine things that a Yoko Ono app really should do.

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John Lennon and Yoko Ono Smile Film Resurrected as iPhone App

John Lennon and Yoko Ono Smile Film Resurrected as iPhone App

Yoko Ono wants to document all the smiling faces in the world, and earlier this month she released an iPhone app to do just that. So far she's collected 2,700 jovial expressions, but it's unclear how the app is different from all the smiling pictures which currently exist on Facebook and Twitter, except that Miss Ono is now indirectly involved.

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App Developer Says Facebook Stole Idea for "Find Friends Nearby" [UPDATED]

App Developer Says Facebook Stole Idea for "Find Friends Nearby" [UPDATED]

The CEO of Friendthem.com has threatened to sue Facebook less than 24 hours after the first reports surfaced that the social network was testing an app that allowed people to connect with users who were physically near them.

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